Word: martials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traitor," rebels announced formation of a fourteen-man cabinet headed by Brigadier General Kassem as Premier and including four other generals. That the plot had been carefully arranged was obvious: within hours of the first move, the rebels announced the civilian officials in a new government, declared martial law, purged loyal army commanders and renamed military units which bore royal titles...
...Decca). Composer Paul Hindemith himself conducts two samples from transitional points (1930 and 1935) in his career. Concert Music plays sounding brasses against whispering harps and a trip-hammered piano in a mood of agitated melancholy; Concerto opens with the full orchestra piling forward over chiseling strings at a martial trot that is remarkable for its sheer momentum and verve. Neither piece is vintage Hindemith, but both are expert, sophisticated and full of orchestral surprises...
Distressed by the rioting he had caused, Premier Bandaranaike appealed to Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke, a tough-minded financier, who took firm command of the situation. Martial law and a rigorous curfew confined the hooliganism to daylight hours. Ships in Colombo Harbor, hastily chartered, were loaded last week with nearly 10,000 Tamil refugees who were then shipped off to the Tamil port of Jaffna, where they can live without daily fear of death. From Jaffna, aboard a Japanese freighter, came some 2,000 Sinhalese whose homes had been destroyed by Tamil mobs, to be resettled in and around...
...halls and corridors, raced up the stairs and rampaged through the 500 government offices. Armfuls of official papers fluttered down from smashed windows. A fully armed company of paratroopers stood idly by, joking with the rioters, accepting beer and sandwiches from ecstatic girls. All at once, there was a martial stir on a second-floor balcony draped with the French Tricolor. A loudspeaker proclaimed: "Silence! An important message from General Massu...
...crisis by taking over as Acting President when Chamoun's predecessor had to resign over charges of corruption. But Shehab now insisted: "I do not want to be known as the destroyer of Presidents," and because he refused to take responsibility, the government refrained all week from imposing martial...